Sam Harris speaks with Katherine Stewart about her new book, Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy. They discuss Project 2025, Christian nationalism, white supremacy, whether the backlash against wokeness has been overblown, the asymmetric standards between right-wing and left-wing media, Trump’s appeal to evangelicals, wealth inequality, political ideology in public schools, and other topics.She admits that the Left pushes some extremely divisive issues, but somehow blames the Right.
26:35 in order to divide you know some of these ideas are incredibly divisive and um and one of the things 26:42 that this does is sort of um makes people think well well the like the 26:49 moderate liberal you know Progressive left they sort of throw all of it into 26:54 that sort of woke communist bucket which is ridiculous I mean the people who are talking about these issues constantly 27:01 are people on the right you know I was recently at America Fest it's an annual Gathering held by turning point USA it 27:10 took place in Phoenix Arizona there were 20,000 sort of Hardcore MAGA every 27:15 single speaker had to talk about transgender women in sports this is like 27:22 you're right they're making a boogeyman out of this issueI agree that transgenderism should not be a big issue, but the Left has made it so. It was one of Kamala Harris's top issues in running for President in the recent election. Republicans hardly ever talked about it, until the Dems and Transgender advocates forced it into everyone's face.
Likewise for a range of other identity politics issues. Republicans ignored them until airplanes started dropping out of the skies. Colleges stopped admitting and hiring based on merit, and so did many others. The peak DEI craziness was the aftermath of the overdose death of George Floyd, a low-level criminal.
At some point, people said enough is enough. If we are not going to stand up for little boys being castrated by woke crazies, then for whom?
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Until the Democrat party decides that the freedom of speech isn't theirs to dictate or turn 'on' or 'off' whenever it suits their emotional incontinence,
They have nothing to say worth listening to.
It takes a lot of nerve or a lot of short term memory loss to blather on about the dangers of dictatorships when CNN, MSNBC, and other left leaning pundits were gleefully suggesting that people who didn't agree with them should be forced into re-education camps or be denied medical treatment or due process just a few years ago. I have not forgotten, even if they have.
The progressive left has nothing left to offer but misery under them as god. It's pretty much all that they live for.
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